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Many books of the Hebrew Bible were either composed in some form or
edited during the Exilic and post-Exilic periods among a community
that was to identify itself as returning from Babylonian captivity.
At the same time, a dearth of contemporary written evidence from
Judah/Yehud and its environs renders any particular understanding
of the process within its social, cultural and political context
virtually impossible. This has led some to label the period a dark
age or black box - as obscure as it is essential for understanding
the history of Judaism. In recent years, however, archaeologists
and historians have stepped up their effort to look for and study
material remains from the period and integrate the local history of
Yehud, the return from Exile, and the restoration of Jerusalem's
temple more firmly within the regional, and indeed global,
developments of the time. At the same time, Assyriologists have
also been introducing a wide range of cuneiform material that
illuminates the economy, literary traditions, practices of literacy
and the ideologies of the Babylonian host society - factors that
affected those taken into Exile in variable, changing and multiple
ways. This volume of essays seeks to exploit these various
advances.
Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's
multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction
to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts
from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period,
individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the
ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the
archives of institutions and private persons in southern
Mesopotamia. The multilingual nature of this name material poses
challenges for students and researchers who want to access these
data as part of their exploration of the social history of the
region in the period. This volume offers guidelines and tools that
will help readers navigate this difficult material. The title is
also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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